Language
Over time the medium and the technology providing us with narratives have changed, has this had an impact on our perception and appreciation of narratives?
The Brothers Grim helped unify the Germanic nations through the use of fairy tales. They collected and published aural narratives which had been around for countless generations. Once published these stories took on a new form, they were replicated exactly so there was little regional variations. A reading of a story in Berlin was exactly the same as a reading in Dresden. The Germanic language became more uniform as did the cultural myths of a nation.
Therefore a developing structure of what is represented and what medium it is expressed prompt people think in more rigid and certain ways and make links and references that where previously impossible and undefined, for example it was difficult for people to articulate the idea of full emaciation in a time when the narratives and language only provided examples of subservience.
The different methods of simulation and how they compare to the original could be looked at and how we respond differently to each type.
- Does the continuing integration of computers into our lives influence the way we think and express ourselves?
- With such words as interaction, embedding, mainline and neural networks, are there brand new ways that we are communicating?
(Many have struggled to come up with a definitive and provable account of narratives, it is such a complex part of human communication, it is a brave person that tries, the closest in terms of Psychology is George A. KELLY and his Personal Construct Psychology. )
